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4/29/2015

A woman who claims
she was sexually abused as a teenager by a strictly Orthodox teacher burst into
tears in court as she described being ordered to “enjoy it” while she was
molested.

The woman said she
was attacked by Todros Grynhaus when she was aged between 14 and 15.

Todros Grynhaus

Mr Grynhaus, the son
of a rabbi, was a respected member of the Charedi community in Salford.

It is alleged he
inappropriately touched the girl in a hotel Jacuzzi on one occasion and on
another forced her to perform a sex act on him, when he said: “It’s really not
too bad. Give it a try.”

The woman described
the attack to a jury at Manchester Crown Court this week where Mr Grynhaus is
facing a retrial on five counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual
assault. He denies the allegations.

Speaking through
tears, she said: “He put his hands behind my shoulders and tried to force me
and told me it was going to be nice. I was saying no. I really, really didn’t
want it. I remember him trying again and again.”

Mr Grynhaus is
accused of attacks on two teenage girls more than 10 years ago. The allegations
began to surface in 2009 but matters were not reported to the police until
November 2012.

After appearing in
court and being granted bail, Grynhaus fled to Israel in 2013 using a false
passport and then produced further false documents claiming to be a resident of
Guinea.

He was deported back
to the UK last year to face trial.

The alleged victim
added: “I didn’t want to report it to the police. I didn’t want to take it this
far… but I realised if I don’t come forward and tell the police I don’t know
how many other children are at harm.

“I don’t think
anybody would make something up like this. It’s sick, it’s absolutely
disgusting. I didn’t think this would happen. I don’t want to be stood here
now. He is a complete psychopath.”

Asked by Jonathan
Goldberg QC, on behalf of Mr Grynhaus, why she did not report matters to the
police sooner, the woman said: “I didn’t think about it. I was getting married.
He had ruined my life already. I wanted to put it to bed.”

Mr Goldberg replied: “Perhaps this story of abuse has been a
convenient crutch for you to explain your marital difficulties.”

A respected Jewish
teacher skipped bail and fled to Israel using a false passport after being
charged with sexual offences against two teenage girls, a court heard on
Tuesday.

Todros Grynhaus

Father-of-10 Todros
Grynhaus, 50, denies five counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual
assault.

On the first day of
a retrial at Manchester Crown Court, the jury were told that Mr Grynhaus, a member
of the Charedi community in Salford and the son of a rabbi, had admitted
molesting a girl of 14 in a hotel jacuzzi.

The admission was
made to his cousin, a rabbi in the strictly Orthodox community in Gateshead,
following a meeting where Mr Grynhaus was confronted with the sexual abuse
allegations.

The court heard that
Mr Grynhaus told his cousin that he had abused two girls, admitting that
"demons were going through him at the time". But, he said, it was now
behind him, with the offences alleged to have taken place around five years
earlier.

With no formal
action taken, one of the alleged victims decided to contact police in November
2012 and Mr Grynhaus was charged with five counts of indecent assault and two
counts of sexual assault against two girls when they were aged around 14 and
15.

But after he
appeared in court and was granted bail, he fled to Israel using a false
passport and was then held in Israeli custody when his fraud was unmasked, the
court heard.

The jury heard he
then claimed to be from Guinea and produced more false identity papers but was
eventually returned to the UK and remanded in custody.

Prosecuting,
Alistair Webster QC said: “The relevance of what I have just told you is this:
when assessing what he puts forward, you are entitled to know that this is a
man who was quite prepared to go to some lengths to deceive both UK and Israeli
authorities. What does that tell you about his reliability and credibility?”

The jury were
earlier told the case would concern a community “of which they may know
little”.

Opening the case, Mr
Webster added: “Some members of this sect go a long way to exclude many modern
traits from their world. For example, their children are not normally allowed
access to the television, radio, newspapers or the internet.

“The children spend
much time on religious education. It is a very different world from that in
which many of us operate. It is one in relation to which, as the evidence
develops, you may detect tensions about what is, or is not, acceptable behaviour.

“What we are
concerned with, however, is not the niceties of particular doctrines or
expectations within that community. We are concerned with what is unlawful
under any code, and certainly the laws of England – sexual attacks upon
vulnerable young victims.”

The offences
remained secret for years because there was a “reluctance” within the community
to report matters to the police, with Mr Grynhaus later telling officers that
if anybody reported alleged abuse they would “ruin their lives”.

The jury heard that
the first major sexual assault occurred when Mr Grynhaus forced himself on a
teenage girl.

He is accused of
forcing himself on the girls and touching them inappropriately or asking them
to perform sex acts upon him.

Mr Webster said:
“You will have to use your understanding of the world to try to envisage how a
young girl in her position would feel and react. With a respected figure,
authoritative, in a society which paid him respect, what could she do?

“There was no
tradition of going with such matters to the police. She had virtually no sex
education.”

When the allegations
surfaced, Mr Grynhaus’s cousin, along with Rabbi Shraga Faivel Zimmerman, who
is a senior rabbi in Gateshead and psychologist Dr Michael Schauder lured Mr
Grynhaus to a meeting and confronted him.

Mr Webster said: “Mr
Grynhaus and his wife turned up and Dr Schauder put the allegations to him. He
didn’t deny or protest, but simply said, in a business-like way: ‘OK, what do
you want me to do?’ Dr Schauder said he should see a therapist in the UK. It
was made clear that the matter would be taken further if not.”

Discussing a
conversation Mr Grynhaus had with his cousin weeks later, Mr Webster added: “He
said this – and you may think that this is the clearest possible admission of
guilt – it was all over and he was no longer a danger.

“He admitted to
messing with her sexually. He had changed his life a number of years ago. ‘You
have no idea’, he told his cousin, ‘of what demons were going through me at the
time.’”

When interviewed by
police, Mr Grynhaus denied all the allegations and said there was a conspiracy
against him and they were part of a “revenge plot”.